Angry women insist that a unity failing to recognize
the radical equality of women and men in the church is not the unity of Jesus Christ.
Not exact matches
In his Wednesday general audience remarks, Francis asked Catholics to consider «the Christian seed
of radical equality between men and
women» when discussing the reasons behind declining marriage rates around the world, according to Vatican Radio.
Radical or countercultural feminist religion offers a rejection
of biblical faith and the creation
of a new faith to respond to a vision
of the
equality of men and
women; Christianity could offer an even more comprehensive and profound vision.
She rejects a limiting view
of feminism as the quest for
women's
equality with men in favor
of radical feminism's focus on «the autonomy, independence, and creation
of the female Self in affinity with others like the Self» (GFF 11).
I learned about
equality even from Paul, who taught that with the resurrection, something
radical had changed — not merely ontologically, but functionally — in the relationships between slaves and masters, Jews and Gentiles, men and
women, rendering those whose identity was once rooted in hierarchy and division brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ instead; who put a
radical gospel - spin on the Greco - Roman household codes, breaking down the hierarchies so that slaves and masters, wives and husbands were charged with submitting «one to another» with the humility
of Jesus as their model; who taught that power was overrated and that service will be rewarded; who surrounded himself with
women he called «co-workers.»
The Society
of Friends offered a congenial environment for both
women's
equality and nonviolence through a common understanding
of a
radical Christian ethic
of love.
Catherine Booth, who with her husband, William, was cofounder
of the Salvation Army, was also an ardent feminist; she insisted on
radical equality for
women in the new organization.
Likewise the Bible's view
of women, emerging from the misogyny
of the prevailing cultural norms, culminates in the
radical equality we see in the New Testament (Galatians 3:28).
Probably not until the polity is more child - and
woman - friendly, not until men and
women are equally valued — economically and otherwise — not until free or low - cost quality childcare is universally available, will the ideal
of equality in marriage be other than
radical.»